Cockney Media Claim Evra On Trial

October 19, 2011

It beggars belief that somebody could earn a salary for writing such dross but James Olley, from The London Evening Standard, has managed to do just that.

Olley claims that if Evra cannot prove that he was racially abused then he should have the book thrown at him. Is that how justice works? Only accuse someone of a crime if you can prove they did it. If you don’t have concrete evidence, shut the fuck up otherwise you run the risk of facing punishment yourself. What an utterly idiotic suggestion.

How much would this policy undermine the Kick It Out campaign, with players who have been racially abused refusing to report any incidents in case a TV camera didn’t pick it up? Can anyone seriously argue that players must be able to prove their claims or run the risk of being banned themselves? To band about phrases like ‘playing the race card’ is cringeworthy and insulting.

No doubt Olley sits chanting “Evra you’re a cant” whenever Arsenal come to Old Trafford to be beaten by United, but it’s a disgrace that in this day and age journalists can get away with having such ignorant nonsense published. Feel free to contact the editor (geordie.greig[AT]standard.co.uk) or sports editor (sportdesk[AT]standard.co.uk) with your thoughts.

"Mainstream media anywhere in the world has hit new lows in the past few years"

"You cannot expect people like Olley, Barclay, Samuel and the likes to show any semblance of class because that is not expected from journalists anymore in the modern world. The fact that they get paid for it is just to shove it in our faces."

You are spot on pal listen to the song 'Death of the Journalist' by Scroobius Pip. It compresses all thoughts on the subject in a nice 5 minute rant. Enyoy

(Sir Alex Ferguson after beating FA Premier League champions Chelsea FC 1-0 on November 6th 2005 when asked if the previous week where Manchester United had endured much criticism was the worst week of his career.)

Glad you agree. Interesting to see who else he picks. I'm pretty sure Smalling will be at RB. Fabio didn't exactly convince on Tuesday and height/power is needed for City's set pieces. Will he play Rio? I thought he was good against L'pool on the whole, and the fact he was rested against Galati suggests he will get the nod. Evra picks himself.

Will he play both Young and Nani? I'd like to think so. We're at home and the Community Shield showed that City can be got at.

To soon for Cleverly. Will we see Giggs in midfield again?

I think:

DDG

Smalling
Vidic
Rio
Evra

Nani
Fletcher
???
Giggs
Young

Rooney

That extra midfield slot is the question. Carrick? Jones again? Anderson? Who knows. Or will he go two up front? If so, it will be Welbeck.

Evra doesn't stand a chance. I truly do believe he was racially abused by this thick tombstone toothed cunt just as he was a few seasons ago at chelsea. The FA basically laughed him out of the room that time and they will again. How can they possibly charge a groundsman with racism when their captain is a massive cunting racist himself. Rooney get a 3 game ban for swearing to a camara ( after winning us the game and from being 2 down ) so what chance does Evra stand with the FA this time around??............. None. Not as long a Stevie me keeps inviting them back to his pad so his thick as fuck wife can suck them all off.

@Scott the Red - funnily enough I found out about this page from a mate on Twitter, and read you going back and forth over Evra's allegations with that thick twat at the Standard - hilarious reading mate, and you could tell the fire was under him from his replies. Keep it up! When I inevitably join Twitter I'll be following @R_o_M without a doubt. Hilarious.

For many of us its really not surprising people want EVRA punished without evidence. Obviously Suarez shouldn't be punished without proof either, but the idea of Evra warranting punishment just because his allegation can't be proved is fucking abhorrent. So if a victim of rape doesn't have a smoking gun to secure a conviction, are people saying "such serious allegations" shouldn't be made without iron-clad proof first? Talk about fucking stupidity.

Somebody said it on here, and its true, tens of millions have already been "well" spent "tackling" racism in football, and if FA or FIFA admitted there is still a problem now it would cost tens of millions more to act, because prawn sandwiches do not make themselves - Also, like Willierednut said somewhere, since when did SKY become judge, jury and executioner? Shouldn't the FA be the ones looking at the tapes? What makes me laugh are the dumb fucks who type ABU Media and still take everything said on TV as Gospel. For example, SKY didn't use lip readers to check the tapes... they actually attempted to HEAR the alleged words... so who is pushing this idea that Evra has no evidence whatsoever to back his claims? Can pitch side microphones pick up WHISPERS??? Jesus, its sad to see many United supporters give weight to SKYS statement before an investigation has even begun, I wouldn't want NONE of you soppy sods in my corner, ya fucking useless Lol.

But rant aside, the BLATANT LIES being told about Evra are enough to make you reach through the monitor and strangle cunts like James Olley with his mouse. But can we blame journos and punters for being stupid? Of course you could, but its pointless. People still take everything on the news as gospel, even though media lies have contributed to over 2 million civilians being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan with our tax payers money. So when you think about it, if dead grandmothers and babies doesn't shame this nation into changing its ways, whose gonna give two fucks about a flashy black millionaire with previous for crying wolf?

Still, one good thing is that people tend to fly their colours on topics like this. Everybody who had Paddy down as a lying black bastard will continue to do so (in their utter ignorance) - and everybody who already knew he'd been stitched up by the FA before will stand by him as he's stitched up again. No Biggy, our Evra's a tough lad, and hats off to him for standing up for what he clearly believes in. Only a MASOCHIST would lie to get this type of publicity, and Evra seems like a really cool bloke who could do without these types of headlines when he's out and about in his private life.

Evra can't prove it because it didn't happen. 21 other players, a ref and 2 assistants and no one, NO ONE, heard anything depite Evra saying it happened over 10 times! Nothing at all picked up on dozens of cameras. He waited 20 mins after the game to raise it and said nothing to the ref at the time?? Come on you all know Evra is lying, Man U know he's lying and the FA know he's lying.

Yep, he should be banned he's caused massive damage to anyone that actually does suffer this sort of abuse in the future, not that you lot care when you all were after was getting Suarez banned.

But panic not he won't get a ban it'll be swept under the carpet. ABU press and tv my arse, they love you and won't do anything to upset you. Hope Suarez has the bollocks to sue the little twat but I imagine he'll be told not to as well.

@ Paul Parker - you want to rip the tinfoil off your windows mate and have a look at what's going on outside.

If footage existed of Suarez mouthing words that could even be interpreted as corroborating Evra's allegations, Sky Sports would have spoon-fed it to us on the hour, every hour, all week long.

The problem Evra has is that he assured Canal+ it did exist immediately after the match. He also told Canal+ that Marriner was aware of the situation yet according to Marriner's match report, he wasn't made aware of it until later.

The other problem Evra has is his connection to previous unreliable, unproven racial abuse claims. Because this just looks like another one to add to the collection, doesn't it?

If Evra's allegations are true and he's denied justice, then as a human being, I sympathise with him.

But given the way he's handled the situation, it's hardly surprising that the press and the public are unconvinced or that Liverpool might request their own investigation against him.

wow your on RoM at two in the morning Joe? fuck me don't you support Liverpool anymore?

:lol: Go get some kip mate.

Oh, and I loved this line from your post...

"The other problem Evra has is his connection to previous unreliable, unproven racial abuse claims. Because this just looks like another one to add to the collection, doesn’t it?"

From this we can deduce one of three things:

One, you was very sleepy when you wrote this. Two, you're a WUM (albeit not a very good one), or Three, you're simply an odd individual, because you've already admitted on RoM that Evra didn't play the race card regarding CFC and Finnan. Now you've regressed back to the primitive state you was in when you first came here.

The thing is, haven't you heard of six degrees of separation? Take me for example, I've probably got a "connection" with the Royal family of England, but it doesn't mean im fucking Kate Middleton does it?

@ Paul Parker - You can deduce whatever you like and make this as personal as you like mate. I'm not interested in any of that.

I realise that the subtleties of the debate are lost on your parochial mind so I'll put it in simple terms. It doesn't matter whether or not Evra has played the 'race card' himself. Simply being the subject of previous cases is enough in the eyes of the public. Rightly or wrongly, they will join those dots and make their own lazy deductions.

Now you can call them thick if you want but bear in mind that you've made a lazy deduction of your own this morning.

Joe, its just banter pal (about a very very bloody serious and emotive topic I might add)

I've said more than once its nothing personal, which should go without saying as I don't know you from Creation.

But I will say I had to look up the word Parochial. I'd wrongly assumed it was derived from Pater, so that got me thinking - I haven't wrongly assumed Joe is short for Josephine by any chance? If so excuse my chauvinism!, as I do kno birds also called Joe come to think of it. But if not, don't have a heart attack on my account fella. no offence intended nor taken.